Example sentences of "been [art] [adv] significant [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What has been the most significant event in your life ? |
| 2 | The reopening of the Gemäldegalerie of Old Master paintings in Dresden has been the most significant thing to happen in Dresden since the fall of the Communist East German regime in 1989 . |
| 3 | In the light of his statistical results , Keeble concluded that regional policy had been the more significant influence . |
| 4 | There have been occasional sorties by the BNP in local by-elections , but none has been a particularly significant performance . |
| 5 | The growth of the library supplier has been a highly significant development of the past 20 years . |
| 6 | But he added : ‘ However , there has been a heavy price to pay and the continual publicity has been particularly hard on my wife Pam , whose fierce and unswerving support has been a very significant factor in the outcome . |
| 7 | ‘ This could well turn out to have been a very significant moment in the history of England ’ , wrote Tom McGrath in Peace News . |
| 8 | Activity in the two days following Cedric Downes 's release had hardly afforded a model of investigative collaboration , with Morse sleeping through until the late afternoon of the Sunday , then idling away most of the Monday in his office , moodily perusing the documents in the case ; and with Lewis doing the converse , making what he felt had been a fairly significant contribution to the case on the Sunday afternoon , and then spending the whole of the Monday abed , where he had lain dead to the wideawake world , and where , even when Mrs Lewis had gently rocked his shoulder at 6.30 p.m. and quietly breathed the prospect of egg and chips into his ear , he had turned his head over into the pillow and blissfully resumed his slumbers . |